ORIENTAL COU.EMBOLA. 117 



5 : 26 : 2 : 2. The fourth abdominal segment at least five times 

 as long as the preceding segment. 



Legs. — Provided with shoit straight setse. The suj^erior claw 

 of the third pair of legs stout and thick, except at the apex where 

 it becomes swollen and membranous (tig. 87) ; one large acicular 

 tooth situated at the middle of the inner mai-gin, a minute tooth 

 immediately in front of the foinner, and a small tooth close to 

 the apex of the claw on either side. The ivferior claw wide and 

 plate-like, bifid. The claws of the first and second pairs of legs 

 smaller and somewhat shorter. A single tenent hair in relation 

 to each foot. 



Furcula. — Moderate in size, stout, "4 mm. long, scaled ven- 

 trally. When closed up beneath the abdomen the mucrones 

 reach to the anterior border of the fourth abdominal segment. 

 The manubrmm divided imperfectly into proximal and distal 

 portions (tig. 88). The denies just about half the length of the 

 manubrium, short and stout ; each provided along its outer 

 aspect with a dorsal row of five very large scales, a row of two 

 similar scales along the inner side, and a small terminal scale 

 just beneath the mucro (figs. 88 and 89). The proximal inner 

 scale equal in length to the proximal outer scale ; the outer and 

 inner apical scales longest of all, the inner slightly longer than 

 the outer. Tlie mucro very small and armed with four teeth 

 (fig. 89) ; a very small terminal tooth, and three dorsal teeth 

 situated one behind the other ; the posterior and middle teeth of 

 the row curved and pointed, the anterior (or proximal) tooth 

 blunt and rounded. 



Coloration. — In alcohol, white. 



Length 1 1'15 mm. 



Twelve specimens taken from a nest of Tei*mites at Rhamba,, 

 south end of Lake Chilka, N.E. Madras {N. Annandale, March 

 3rd, 1910). The Termite has been subsequently identified by 

 Prof. Silvestri as Termes redemavni Wasm. 

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Sub-order SYMPHYPLEONA Born. 

 Fam. Sminthurid^ Lbk. 

 Sub-fam. Sminthuridin^ Born. 

 Genus Sminthurides Born. 

 f Sminthurus (Smynthurus) Latreille, Hist. Nat. 1804, T. viii. 

 p. 79 [ad partem). 



Sminthurides Borner, " Zur Kennt. der Apteryg,- Fauna von 

 Bremen," Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, 1901, Bd. xvii. p. 91. 



* Sminthurides appendiculatus, sp. n. (PI. XII. figs. 83-86.) 



Articulus ultimus antennarum lo7igissimus, vix annidatus. 



Pili clavati in tibiis nulli. Unguiculi superiores inermes ; ungui- 



ctdi inferiores in f^etam lorigam prolongati. UngvicuM inferiores 



